gdm set to english keyboard, should be swiss, change it where?

browny_amiga · 02-11-2009, 01:13 PM

Hi

My whole system is working with the swiss keyboard, unfortunately, GDM is set to English. I cannot configure this in the GDM configurator. There is also no indicator which keyboard is currently active in GDM: Entering the (secure: alphanumeric-special-character) password becomes a pain.
This is on Debian Lenny. Is this a bug or can I configure the keyboard manually?

Markus

brianL · 02-11-2009, 01:19 PM

Try System => Preferences => Keyboard => Layouts.

browny_amiga · 02-12-2009, 12:43 PM

Smart of my to forget ;-):
This is KDE (so no such menu or option), but I got gnome installed, so how do I call this config program manually over the CLI?

Markus

browny_amiga · 02-18-2009, 10:30 AM

I logged into gnome and set the swiss as default, erased that USA one and yet GDM is still blocking me and is still set on US keyboard. Is there any way I can fix this? Of do I have to use KDM instead?

Markus

browny_amiga · 02-18-2009, 10:41 AM

I just lost patience and tried to set KDM as the default display manager (dpkg-reconfigure kdm or gdm), but in every case, GDM stay the default one. I cannot even deinstall gdm without removing 90% of the gnome desktop. So for the moment, I am stuck with a defunct GDM.

This is Debian Lenny, and as it is still testing release, it might be a bug.

Markus